We are encouraging Newcastle schools to enable their pupils to get involved in one or more of the national language competitions happening from Autumn 2025.…
Our partner, QFI, is offering schools the opportunity to apply for the Arabic Afterschool Enrichment Grant programme. This provides support to robust Arabic language programmes…
The summary evaluation report for Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages 2025 has been published today. This demonstrates the impact of the Festival, which…
We are delighted to share the Mother Tongue Other Tongue e-book, a digital anthology of children and young people’s writing from across the North East.…
The ‘Empowering Young People to Change the World’ online teachers conference series, runs to 15 July, with two events scheduled each week of term time,…
The Stephen Spender Prize 2025 poetry translation competition is open for entries by the deadline of 31st July. This is an annual competition to translate…
Thank you to all the children from North East primary schools who took part in the Calligrams Celebration, as part of Express Yourself: North East…
Wow! We are amazed and delighted at the level of participation in Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages this year. 93,798 children and young…
148 young people from 8 North East schools took part in motivational football themed workshops with Futbol Lingo’s Pierce Kiembi and Jake Butler, on 26th…
Declan Baharini, our Chief Executive Officer and Co-ordinator of Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages attended Language World 2025 last week. Language World ran…




